Books like His Lordship's Pleasure by Marion Chesney

A charming novel of Regency manners and mores, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage and attempts to force her daughter into a dismal match.

A young widow seeks the truth about the enigmatic Lord Ian Mackenzie, a Scotsman rumored to be mad and possibly murderous, in a tale of passion and intrigue set in historic England.

Lord Giles Cardross believes his 18‑year‑old wife, Helen, loves him, but her frivolous ways and rising debts make him question whether she married for money. Family scandals and hidden truths threaten their union.

Emily Portsman hides a dangerous secret while working at London’s forbidden Tantalus Club. When former spy Nate Stokes, the Earl of Westfall, hunts a murderess, the two find trust, desire and deadly intrigues amid eighteenth‑century Great Britain.

Widowed Silence Hollingbrook seeks refuge after a fateful night with London’s ruthless river pirate, Mickey O'Connor, who now returns—armed with a child and a hollow promise of redemption.

A sharp‑witted heir faces a desperate widowed heiress in a cunning marriage of convenience, while blackmail threatens to unravel both their fortunes and reputations.

In the early 1900s, a spirited New Hampshire heiress’s illicit romance with an older man shatters her family’s social standing on the coast of Boston.

When Lord Evan Trent flips a coin to choose between two sisters, he finds himself betrothed to Lydia, the eldest Swann daughter—a marriage he never expected. Seeking freedom, Lydia proposes a month’s separation to rekindle a past love, but the plan entangles them and awakens a surprising romance.

A middle‑aged Afro‑American woman travels to Carriacou and reconnects with her heritage, discovering a past and a culture she comes to cherish.

A silent yet passionate romance unfolds as the mute Lady Emily Marlowe reconnects with her long‑lost childhood love, Lord Ashley Kendrick, amid the refined world of early 20th‑century aristocracy.

A love story between a middle-aged man and a young woman from a partisans' family in London, set against the backdrop of the 1970s, exploring the seductive power of storytelling.

Wyatt Reed, a bounty hunter, is hired to escort orphaned children to a new town. When he meets Charlotte Miller—a widow who can only adopt after marriage—he becomes her temporary groom, discovering more than just a contract.

Widow Abby Carter and widower Caleb Gentry form an unconventional family, combining faith, love and a shared need for security as they navigate remarriage and blended parenting in Arkansas.

A New Orleans socialite must abandon Parisian luxury to inherit a New Mexico ranch, where she clashes with the stoic Captain Jake Branden and discovers a mysterious half-sister, leading to a fiery southern romance.

Two families waiting for their Korean‑adopted babies meet at the airport, and their lives become intertwined at an annual welcome party. As the families navigate friendship, grief and cultural tension, a widowed Donaldson courts Maryam, an Iranian‑American whose values are challenged.

"A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance. When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret to him. Now under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. When the loudspeakers reveal a forbidden romance between a Muslim cleric's daughter and Nargis's Christian neighbor, Nargis finds herself trapped in the center of the chaos tearing their community apart. In his characteristically luminous prose, Nadeem Aslam has given us a lionhearted novel that reflects Pakistan's past and present in a single mirror, a story of corruption, resilience, and the disguises that are sometimes necessary for survival--a revelatory portrait of the human spirit"--